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About the Role
As an Associate in our Structural Practice, you'll guide complex building designs, lead teams, deepen client relationships, and expand your influence across the firm. At this level, you'll pair advanced engineering expertise with growing ownership of business results, helping shape strategy, strengthen client partnerships, and elevate project delivery. This is your opportunity to make a bigger impact and accelerate your path toward firm leadership.
Responsibilities
- Tackle complex, high-impact building projects where your technical judgment directly shapes outcomes.
- Lead project delivery end-to-end, steering design, managing teams, and driving decisions with real autonomy.
- Be the expert clients rely on, providing clear, confident guidance on advanced structural challenges.
- Grow and mentor a high-performing team, raising the technical bar and developing future leaders.
- Expand client relationships and help position Thornton Tomasetti for new opportunities and markets.
- Influence firm strategy by connecting clients to our full-service capabilities and identifying where we should grow next.
Requirements
- Drive project delivery and lead teams, partnering with clients while leveraging strong technical expertise to solve complex challenges and shape project strategy and priorities.
- Leadership that inspires others through mentoring, empowerment, and effective communication, while expanding your client-facing presence.
Skills
- Advanced engineering expertise
- Business results ownership
- Client relationship management
- Project delivery
- Technical judgment
- Advanced structural challenges
- Mentoring
- Empowerment
- Effective communication
- Client-facing presence
- New building design
- Steel design
- Concrete design
- Timber design
- Seismic design
- Tall buildings design
- Specialty structures design
Experience Level
- 8+ years of structural engineering experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Structural, or Architectural Engineering
- Master’s degree preferred
- Professional Engineer (PE) and/or Structural Engineer (SE) licensure
Salary/Compensations
- $1,000 - $800,000 annually
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, Disability and other voluntary benefits
- Flexible Spending Accounts for Medical and Childcare
- Paid Time Off, Family Leave for New Parents, Volunteer Time
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Commuter Transit (where available)
- 401k retirement savings with Company matching on employee contributions and/or qualified student loan repayments
- Fitness Reimbursement
- Various wellness, diversity/inclusion and employee resource programs and initiatives
About the Company
- Thornton Tomasetti applies engineering and scientific principles to solve the world’s challenges.
- An independent organization of creative thinkers and innovative doers collaborating from offices worldwide, our mission is to bring our clients' ideas to life and, in the process, lay the groundwork for a better, more resilient future.
- We provide support and opportunities to our employees to achieve their full potential and cultivate a rewarding career.
- Our Structural Engineering practice collaborates with architects, building owners, and builders to design elegant solutions for projects of all types, sizes, and levels of complexity.
- From designing the world’s tallest buildings and most extended spans to engineering inventive “jewel-box” structures and designing major expansion projects, we continually seek the best balance among the demands of form, function, sustainability, constructability, schedule, and budget.
Equal Opportunity
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
- Thornton Tomasetti is proud to be an equal employment workplace.
- Individuals seeking employment at Thornton Tomasetti are considered without regards to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.